He said that despite the amended law on parties now in force," there are no barriers for setting up, buying and selling them for knocking together blocs". Morozov believes that toughened laws are to cost political technologists a pretty penny. He specified that the bill on harsher requirements for parties has not yet been introduced but it would be useful to see this document among amendments to the bill on the proportional system.
The vice-speaker believes that the number of federal parties can be diminished by changing the required minimal membership from 10,000, as is the case now, to 50,000 or even 100,000 as well as by providing for the parties' mandatory representation in more than 50% of the regions.
Morozov thinks that there is no need of legally fix the number of parties as two.
Dealing with the presidential initiative on governor election, Morozov said that this bill is bound to receive conceptual support in the regions as well as some essential reservations by the second reading.
In some regions, this reservation can boil down to the appointment of mayors of big cities. In the opinion of Morozov, "the mayors of capitals in Federation jurisdictions should be placed in the category of appointed officials. By the second reading, jurisdictions can come up with amendments on excluding the provision of dissolution of their legislative assemblies.
